Twitter suffered one other outage on March 1 as hundreds of customers flagged points with Elon Musk’s social media platform. The outage came about as Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new challenge, Bluesky, went into beta testing.

Information from Downdetector confirmed hundreds of difficulty stories from Twitter customers from 9 am UTC, with points slowly being resolved over a five-hour interval. 59% of the reported issues had been from cell app customers, whereas an extra 35% of points had been flagged by web site customers.

Twitter is but to difficulty any updates on the reason for the outage, however numerous stories point out that customers in several elements of the world skilled points, together with the “Following” and “For You” feeds not displaying any tweets or content material.

The New York Occasions reported {that a} additional 200 staff had been retrenched from the corporate over the weekend. Since Musk took over the social media platform, Twitter’s employees numbers have been lowered from over 7,500 to beneath 2,000. In response to the report, product managers, knowledge scientists and engineers had been amongst those that had been let go by the corporate.

Whereas Twitter grappled with its newest outage, Dorsey’s decentralized social media platform, Bluesky, went into non-public beta testing. As Cointelegraph reported, the cell software grew to become obtainable to pick out customers via ainvitation-only beta testing.

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In response to preliminary stories, the applying has been obtainable on the Apple App Retailer since Feb. 17 and had over 2,000 downloads by the top of the month. The app will not be but obtainable on Android.

A report in January recommended that Twitter was growing fee options for the applying, with the potential of onboarding cryptocurrency performance sooner or later. The social media app additionally rolled out a cryptocurrency value search function in January, which featured over 30 totally different tokens. 

Bluesky emerged as a facet product of Twitter in 2019, aiming to create an open and decentralized commonplace for social media. In the meantime, one other decentralized social media platform, Damus, went stay in February 2023 as effectively. The platform is a messaging service constructed on Nostr, a decentralized community powering encrypted end-to-end non-public messaging and different companies.